Thunderbolts of the Gods is a
108 page 8-1/2 x 11 full color monograph based on the life work of the two
authors--a revolutionary synthesis of comparative mythology and the
newly-discovered "Electric Universe".

The Monograph includes
an hour-long DVD introducing various aspects of the Electric
Universe explained by members of the Thunderbolts Group.

To see what is happening on
Jupiter's closest moon, Io, a change in language and theory is
required. Mechanical, electrically sterile terminology only hinders
understanding.

Pictured above: the plumes of the “volcano”
Pele, on Jupiter’s moon Io.

As plasma physicists look at astronomy and
astronomers look at plasma, the respective languages, cultivated
over many decades, can only accentuate the gap in viewpoints. The
language of “plasma cosmology,” describing the formation of
galaxies, stars, and planets, includes many terms more familiar to
electrical engineers than to astronomers--Langmuir sheaths,
z-pinches, glow discharges, arc discharges, plasmoids.

Astronomers have cultivated a different
language. Having banished charged plasma from space, they
concentrate on the much simpler behavior of a “magnetized gas”, not
the charge. Their equations for the behavior of plasma are
typically those used to describe flowing water and blowing wind,
with a modification due to magnetic effects—the math of classical
mechanics. Thus, their lexicon reflects their perspective, with
words one might expect from a weatherman—winds and jets, bowshocks
and shock waves, winds and rains of charged particles, wind socks,
etc.

What NASA scientists call a "surprising rain of
charged particles" in the vicinity of Jupiter’s moon Io is
interesting and dangerous weather for spacecraft. But in an
electric universe the phenomenon means much more than a cosmic
weather report. It is a signature of electrical activity that could
not fail to produce a continuous stream of surprises for those
unaccustomed to the behavior of electrified plasma.

Jupiter and its moons form a small-scale model
of the solar system and should therefore be a test of hypotheses
about its formation. But despite the money, time and effort spent on
the Galileo mission to Jupiter it ultimately failed to provide
satisfactory answers about the remarkable environment of the gas
giant.

When Cornell astrophysicist Thomas Gold
proposed in the journal Science (Nov, 1979) that the
“volcanoes” on Io were actually plasma discharge plumes, he was
“answered” in the same journal by Gene Shoemaker et al. But it is
dismaying to see that, despite a cascade of data in favor of Gold’s
original insight—and no new data in support of the more conventional
interpretation--neither Science nor any other respected
journals revisited the issue. Could it be that the wrong hypothesis
was chosen to interpret the data from Galileo? Science functions
best when there are a plurality of ideas to be tested, so that when
surprises arise, we will be aware of those who were NOT SURPRISED by
the new findings.

The Electric
Universe model asks us to also consider the circuit between Jupiter
and the Sun, and the Sun and the galaxy. Io can then be seen in
proper perspective as a hapless intermediary in the more powerful
electrical exchange between Jupiter and the Sun. Only with this more
universal perspective can the right questions be posed and coherent
answers be expected.